Only on 12: Girlfriend on phone with man as he was shot, killed

The victim of a fatal shooting early Wednesday morning was talking with his girlfriend on a pay phone to his girlfriend when he was shot and killed.

Bianca Prescott said she heard a thumping sound, and the next thing she knew, Mark Carrington, 27, was dead.

"He watches our house at night so won't nobody break in. He's like a guardian angel that's gone," Prescott said. "And I don't want his name to ever die, because he was a nice person."

It happened near Cesar Chavez and National Avenue in Milwaukee.

This is the second time Prescott has felt this kind of pain. Her 18-year-old brother, Mehemiah, was shot to death outside a gas station in 2006.

"I have no closure," Prescott's mother, Arlene Patterson, said.

Patterson said no one was ever arrested in that shooting.

She said she and her neighbors will never get numb to the violence they're seeing every day.

"I mean, this is just a nightmare. It's like it's not going to end, but God, let this end because we need peace in the city of Milwaukee," Patterson said.

She said she heard 16 gunshots near her block on 23rd Street on Tuesday. She said she believes the police are doing the best they can but wonders if families like hers have become trapped by a storm of violence.

"Maybe a week ago, somebody shot a BB gun in my grandbaby's room, and I had to get her out of there, and the window was still broke. I called the police. I don't know who did it, you know? It's really crazy," Patterson said.

Police have no motive for the shooting and no one in custody.

WISN 12 News learned that Carrington was to be sentenced in October on felony drug charges.

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